‘I am not what I am’: hidden identities in Shakespeare’s plays

Lecture in English by Luigi Giannitrapani

Luigi Giannitrapani, who spoke last November about the English Romantic poets, turns his attention the question of hidden identities in the plays of William Shakespeare, who died 400 years ago this spring.

‘I will wear my heart upon my sleeve’, says Othello to Roderigo, ‘for daws to peck at. I am not what I am.’

 

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